Genre and ethics
Subtitle: the education of an eighteenth-century critic
By: Edward Tomarken.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- 18th century.; Ethics in literature.
Description: "This book combines a literary critical version of genre with a pedagogical conception of ethics. It is comprised of eight chapters covering literature from the Renaissance to the present with an emphasis on the Restoration and the eighteenth century.".

"The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent?

This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: An Autobiographical Introduction:; title: Why Genre and Ethics? 17; title: 1. How Genre Criticism Leads to Ethics 49; title: 2. Textual Ideology in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko 70; title: 3. Critical Ideology in The Beaux' and Belle's Stratagem 97; title: 4. Critical Judgment in MacFlecknoe 117; title: 5. Ethical Agency in "The Double Mistress" 137; title: 6. History, Genre, and Ethics in The Life of Richard; title: Savage 162; title: 7. Genre and Teleology: The Faith of Criticism 188; title: 8. Literary History: the Pastoral Elegy from "Lycidas"; title: to the Present 221; title: Pedagogical Postscript 249.